IRNA reports Army commander Hatami said Iran’s war is a ‘war of the oppressed’ but its defenses are very strong. He said the army, navy and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are deployed along the entire Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman coastline, making enemies not even dare to approach Iran’s coast.

美国5月进口物价指数年率 6.7%，预期5.7%，前值4.20%。

US housing starts slowed to their weakest pace in six years as multifamily projects plunged, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. May starts fell 15.4% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 1.18 mln, below expectations. The decline was driven by a 40.2% drop in multifamily starts; single-family starts slipped 1.9% to an 882k SAAR. Builders remain cautious amid weak demand and are working through new-home inventories; many developers are cutting prices, subsidizing buyers’ mortgage rates and reducing speculative starts (homes begun before sales contracts). Building permits, a forward indicator of construction, fell 0.7% in May to a 1.41 mln SAAR.